Regarding the Record’s Editorial: On the third day, a budget deal (July 4, 2017)

The recent partial shutdown of the state’s government provides the voters an opportunity to discuss the proper role and size of government. The state has designated many of the services it provides as “non-essential.” We should examine each of those services, with an eye to determining how residents and taxpayers could be better served by moving them to the private sector. The government bureaucrats and elected officials in the two old parties have little interest in such a comprehensive review, since a large powerful state serves their self-interests and those of the special interests that put/keep them in power.